Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the best way to resolve conflict in Africa is through dialogue, News About Nigeria reports.
Obasanjo, who said this on Monday at a youth leadership symposium with the theme “Opportunities for Peace: Roles of the Youths in Conflict Prevention in Africa,” held at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, noted that no form of violence will help in resolving conflicts in Africa.
The former president also charged Africans to begin to embrace love and peace as a means of negotiating for sustainable economic growth and prosperity.
He further noted that, like never before, conscious efforts are needed to build and inculcate a culture of peace and security among the youth.
In his own words, “The youth must be at the vanguard of pursuing peace; they must be able to persuade those who believe that guns and violence are the way out of conflicts to have a rethink; the way out is conversation and dialogue.
“We have had our issues here during the civil war; we killed ourselves mercilessly and destroyed our best facilities, but we still came back to the roundtable to get the challenge resolved. Youths must develop a culture of peace, a culture of humaneness, and a culture of living the way God wants us to live.”
Obasanjo also tasked the President Bola Tinubu-led government to also reach out to Zimbabwe in order to learn from the southern African country how it weathered the storm of galloping inflation that currently plagues the country.
